Contributions to All the Year Round, by Charles Dickens

Announcement in “Household Words” Of the Approaching Publication of “All the Year Round”

After the appearance of the present concluding Number of Household Words, this publication will merge into the new
weekly publication, All the Year Round, and the title, Household Words, will form a part of the title-page of All the
Year Round.

The Prospectus of the latter Journal describes it in these words:

“ADDRESS

“Nine years of Household Words, are the best practical assurance that can be offered to the public, of the spirit
and objects of All the Year Round.

“In transferring myself, and my strongest energies, from the publication that is about to be discontinued, to the
publication that is about to be begun, I have the happiness of taking with me the staff of writers with whom I have
laboured, and all the literary and business co-operation that can make my work a pleasure. In some important respects,
I am now free greatly to advance on past arrangements. Those, I leave to testify for themselves in due course.

“That fusion of the graces of the imagination with the realities of life, which is vital to the welfare of any
community, and for which I have striven from week to week as honestly as I could during the last nine years, will
continue to be striven for “all the year round”. The old weekly cares and duties become things of the Past, merely to
be assumed, with an increased love for them and brighter hopes springing out of them, in the Present and the
Future.

“I look, and plan, for a very much wider circle of readers, and yet again for a steadily expanding circle of
readers, in the projects I hope to carry through “all the year round”. And I feel confident that this expectation will
be realized, if it deserve realization.

“The task of my new journal is set, and it will steadily try to work the task out. Its pages shall show to what good
purpose their motto is remembered in them, and with how much of fidelity and earnestness they tell

“the story of our lives from year to year.

“CHARLES DICKENS.”

Since this was issued, the Journal itself has come into existence, and has spoken for itself five weeks. Its fifth
Number is published to-day, and its circulation, moderately stated, trebles that now relinquished in Household
Words.

In referring our readers, henceforth, to All the Year Round, we can but assure them afresh, of our unwearying and
faithful service, in what is at once the work and the chief pleasure of our life. Through all that we are doing, and
through all that we design to do, our aim is to do our best in sincerity of purpose, and true devotion of spirit.

We do not for a moment suppose that we may lean on the character of these pages, and rest contented at the point
where they stop. We see in that point but a starting-place for our new journey; and on that journey, with new prospects
opening out before us everywhere, we joyfully proceed, entreating our readers — without any of the pain of leave-taking
incidental to most journeys — to bear us company All the year round.